Eric Merritt is a Software Engineer who specializes in concurrent
languages and distributed systems. For the last seven years he has been
coding Erlang and has also been heavily involved in the Erlang
community. Currently, Eric is a core developer for the Erlware family of open source products and is the primary developer for the Sinan build system.

Eric has been involved in both professional and Open Source development
for the last ten years. He started his career developing applications
in C and Java on IBM Mainframe and Midrange hardware. He also provided
training and consulting in object-oriented principles and concepts.
However, his interest in languages, concurrency and distributed systems
quickly drove him to greener fields. Today he works on both large-scale
distributed systems and interesting Erlang projects, sometimes at the
same time.

In this talk you will learn how to install the tools and how to
generate and start a project singen, build.cfg, and compilation. Eric
and Martin will also provide an intro into working with erlware tools
during build Building and testing with Sinan, versioning and locally
installing library applications so Sinan picks them up as dependencies.
They will then cover how to publish code Creating releases, package
format conventions, control files, the package maintainer role,
publishing with Faxien. Finally, you will learn how to install and use
production releases, how to install and use them.